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• Planet survives stellar explosion

  September 12, 2007 Katharine Sanderson Nature (news@nature)

  maybe Earth isn't doomed after all...

• Can string theory accommodate inflation?

  September 11, 2007 David Shiga New Scientist

• How to Teach Intelligent Design, SMU Style

  September 11, 2007 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

  this past spring, anti-ID faculty at Southern Methodist University (SMU) refused to engage in a debate over intelligent design

• New intelligent design conflict hits BU

  September 11, 2007 Claire St. Amant Lariat (Baylor University)

• A tale of two museums

  September 10, 2007 David A. DeWitt Answers in Genesis

  a comparison between the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Creation Museum

• Discovery Institute's Science Education Policy

  September 10, 2007 Discovery Institute

• Web site sparks new intelligent design battle at BU

  September 9, 2007 Tim Woods Tribune-Herald (Waco, TX)

  Baylor University

• The gene that makes your mouth water

  September 9, 2007 Ewen Callaway Nature (news@nature)

  ability to digest starch could have spurred human evolution

• News Update/Commentary

  Parasitic Battles Can Involve Gene Transfer That Aids Evolution

  September 8, 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Science Daily

• Shockwaves from melting icecaps are triggering earthquakes, say scientists

  September 8, 2007 Daniel Howden Independent (UK)

• Magazine Article

  REVIEW: February 2009

  September 8, 2007 Scientific American

• Shock: kids smarter than chimps

  September 7, 2007 Will Dunham News (Australia)

• "Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis"

  September 7, 2007 Esther Herrmann, Josep Call, María Victoria Hernàndez-Lloreda, Brian Hare, and Michael Tomasello Science, v.317, n.5843, p.1360-1366

• "Nonhuman Primates Demonstrate Humanlike Reasoning"

  September 7, 2007 Elizabeth Pennisi Science, v.317, n.5843, p.1308

• "Interpreting Sequences from Mastodon and T. rex"

  September 7, 2007 John M. Asara, John S. Garavelli, David A. Slatter, Mary H. Schweitzer, Lisa M. Freimark, Matthew Phillips, and Lewis C. Cantley Science, v.317, n.5843, p.1324-1325

• God and Science

  September 7, 2007 Sam Vaknin American Chronicle

• Arthur Eddington was innocent!

  September 7, 2007 Philip Ball Nature (news@nature)

  the trend for debunking science's simple narratives can be overdone

• Beyond the Firmament Offers a Fresh Perspective on the Creation-Evolution Debate

  September 6, 2007 Open PR

• Book

  Beyond the Firmament: Understanding Science and the Theology of Creation

  September 6, 2007 Gordon J. Glover Watertree Press

  see also Amazon

• Saturn's dizzying spin hints at quick birth

  September 6, 2007 David Shiga New Scientist

• "Natural history and evolutionary principles of gene duplication in fungi"

  September 6, 2007 Ilan Wapinski, Avi Pfeffer, Nir Friedman, and Aviv Regev Nature, v.449, p.54-61

• News Update/Commentary

  Mice Thrive Missing Ancient DNA Sequences

  September 6, 2007 DOE-Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Science Daily

• Tots More Socially Cognitive Than Apes

  September 6, 2007 Lauran Neergaard ABC News (Associated Press)

  researchers say preschoolers have more sophisticated social learning skills than apes

• "Raptorial jaws in the throat help moray eels swallow large prey"

  September 6, 2007 Rita S. Mehta and Peter C. Wainwright Nature, v.449, p.79-82

• EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Up in the Mouth — The discovery that morays can thrust a second pair of jaws out from their throat to wolf do

• An asteroid breakup 160 Myr ago as the probable source of the K/T impactor

  September 6, 2007 William F. Bottke, David Vokrouhlický, and David Nesvorný Nature, v.449, p.48-53

  EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Baptistina of fire

• IMPACT CRATERING: "A Big Splat in the Asteroid Belt Doomed Earth's Dinosaurs"

  September 6, 2007 Richard A. Kerr Science, v.317, n.5843, p.1310

• Asteroid collision sealed dinosaurs' fate

  September 6, 2007 Carolyn Gramling Geotimes

• A Saint of Darkness

  September 5, 2007 New York Times

  a new book of her letters, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light, published by Doubleday, show her struggling for decades against disbelief

• News Update/Commentary

  Investigating the Evolution of Drug Resistance in Malaria Parasites

  September 5, 2007 Binghamton University Science Daily

• Astrobiology Magazine

  September 5, 2007

• Virtual Bookshelf Archive

  September 5, 2007 conversations with the creators of new and notable books

• D. James Kennedy dies

  September 5, 2007 National Center for Science Education

  "A dedicated young-earth creationist, Kennedy often preached against evolution ..."

• I.D. rift hits Baylor again

  September 5, 2007 Erin Roach Baptist Press

  Baylor University officials shutdown distinguished professor Robert Marks' personal website because of concerns that it supported Intelligent Design

• Schizophrenia genes 'favoured by evolution'

  September 5, 2007 Michael Hopkin Nature (news@nature)

  sequences linked to brain disorder show hallmarks of natural selection

• Why humans must leave Earth

  September 5, 2007 J. Richard Gott III New Scientist, n.2620

• 'Heretical' cosmologist does away with big bang theory

  September 5, 2007 Zeeya Merali New Scientist, n.2620

• Discovered: The asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs

  September 5, 2007 Jeff Hecht New Scientist

• UK set to greenlight chimera research

  September 4, 2007 Lucy Sherriff The Register (UK)

  the UK's fertility regulator is expected to give its seal of approval to research on human-animal hybrids in the UK

• News Update/Commentary

  First Diploid Human Genome Sequence Shows We're Surprisingly Different

  September 4, 2007 J. Craig Venter Institute Science Daily

• Fantastic world

  September 4, 2007 Lew Moores Athens News (Ohio)

  on the Kentucky Creation Museum

• Thirsting for God: The Spirituality of Mother Teresa

  September 4, 2007 Rachel Davies Spectrum

• A Monument to the Terror

  September 4, 2007 Melik Kaylan Wall Street Journal

  visiting Georgia's Museum of the Soviet Occupation is like watching a perfectly staged, cathartic tragedy

• Evolution vs. Creationism

  September 4, 2007 Ursula Siebert American Chronicle

• 'Cosmic Cockroaches' Possible Key to Life on Earth

  September 4, 2007 Tony Phillips Red Orbit

• Darwin's Deadly Legacy

  September 3, 2007 Bill Haymin American Chronicle

• Darwinism after Darwin: new historical perspectives

  September 3, 2007 University of Leeds (UK)

  topics: histories, religion, bodies, society, case studies, the arts, mind, cyberspace

• Hybrid embryo research tipped for approval

  September 2, 2007 Nicholas Christian Scotsman (UK)

  the government's ethical watchdog, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, will decide whether to permit scientists to create human-animal hybrid embryos to extract stem cells for studies

• Book

  Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion

  September 2, 2007 John Polkinghorne Yale University Press

  see also Amazon

• Math: Gift from God or Work of Man?

  September 2, 2007 John Allen Paulos ABC News

  mathematics, religion and evolution in school curricula

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Science without God: Natural Laws and Christian Beliefs

  September, 2007 Ronald L. Numbers Oxford University Press

  This chapter traces the history of what has come to be known as “methodological naturalism”, the bane of intelligent design advocates, who see it as an agent of atheism.